Final Cut Pro "improves" my exposure upon export.

I'm using Final Cut Pro 6. I export my entire timeline as a series of stills, which I batch process in Photoshop to apply specific curves. Then I reimport the stills into a timeline.
When I export the timeline, Final Cut takes it upon itself to change the exposure. Is there a way to override this extremely helpful feature?

Thanks for the tip. It didn't help, though.
Interestingly, when I open the exported clip in Final Cut, it looks better than when I open it in QuickTime. Which seems to indicate that the problem is actually in getting the two Apple products to agree on how to display something on an Apple monitor.
Kind of frustrating.

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